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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

It marks the seventh round of NOx controls for the EGU sector since 1990. Units with existing advanced NOx controls must optimize their utilization by 2023. The agency’s air quality modeling indicates that most areas would receive an ozone reduction of less than 0.1 ppb in 2023, with typical reductions of 0.1

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DEP Issues $1.1 Million Civil Penalty To Equitrans For Violations Related To The Uncontrolled Venting Of 1.1 Billion Cubic Feet Of Gas From The Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area In Cambria County

PA Environment Daily

The total civil penalty assessments include $350,000 for air quality violations, which is the maximum civil penalty assessment allowable under the Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act, and $764,000 pursuant to Pennsylvania’s oil and gas and solid waste laws. Related Articles - Rager Mountain: -- Equitrans Determined Leak Of Over 1.1

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EPA Announces $1.35 Million Penalty, Settlement With Genesee & Wyoming Railroad Over Clean Air Act Violations

PA Environment Daily

and numerous affiliated companies (collectively, GWRSI) for violation of Clean Air Act (CAA) locomotive regulations. NOx is a contributor to the formation of summer ozone, and particulate matter smaller than 2.5 Posted: January 24, 2023] PA Environment Digest microns has been shown to cause lung damage and cancer.

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Other 2023 N.C. Environmental Legislation

Smith Enviorment

December 19, 2023. The previous post covered significant water quality legislation enacted by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2023. This post briefly summarizes other 2023 environmental legislation. ’s current ozone SIP based on vehicle emission inspections in 19 N.C. AIR QUALITY. A new statute section, G.S.

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Cars, Smog, and EPA

Legal Planet

This is part of an occasional series of posts about the evolution of pollution standards. Today’s subject is pollution control for new vehicles, which have been known to cause smog since the 1960s. The history of these pollution standards is quite distinctive. Congress adjusted the standards twice. gpm NOx standard.

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Sabin Center Files Amicus Brief in Support of New GHG Vehicle Emissions Standards

Law Columbia

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. This blog post summarizes the history of federal vehicle emissions regulations, the arguments made by Petitioners in Texas v. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

Canada and other countries pledged to stop public financing of fossil fuel projects abroad by 2023. The backstory: The question of which streams and wetlands are federally regulated under the Clean Water Act has been in limbo for the past decade and a half, since the Supreme Court issued a muddled decision in the 2006 case Rapanos v.

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